One of the advantages of cloud computing is the notion of all the infrastructure necessary for delivering an application is at your fingertips. There's no need to cobble together the various compute, network, and storage resources necessary – it's all available at the push of a button (or three). Even a private cloud computing environment is not as compelling in terms of providing the "infrastructure in a box" scenario promised by public cloud computing, as it's still necessary to acquire and integrate all the disparate components that go into building out such an infrastructure.

Some data center providers like NetApp have come up with the data center equivalent of public cloud's easy button, offering a complete solution in a "box" (or in this case, a "rack").

“FlexPod™, jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco, is a flexible infrastructure platform composed of pre-sized storage, networking, and server components. It’s designed to ease your IT transformation from virtualization to cloud computing with maximum efficiency and minimal risk.”

That's where F5 comes into the picture, providing essential application delivery services for VMware View such as secure remote access, load balancing, acceleration and optimization. If FlexPod makes it easier to dynamically manage resources supporting these applications then adding an F5 application delivery tier to the mix will ensure those resources and the user experience are optimized.

F5 will be at VMworld, and you can visit us in Booth # 1101 to see a live multi-site deployment demonstrating our unique virtualization solutions including Single Namespace and Username Persistence support, as well as chat more about VMware View, NetApp FlexPod and other virtualization-related topics.

And if you aren't attending VMworld, you can follow along and hear what folks have to say all week via Twitter and Facebook.

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“FlexPod™, jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco, is a flexible infrastructure platform composed of pre-sized storage, networking, and server components. It’s designed to ease your IT transformation from virtualization to cloud computing with maximum efficiency and minimal risk.”